“I just love playing with this band,” he said in a statement to the press. “I joke that at the end of every tour I think it’s the last one and so I fire them. And then we keep finding places we can play and keep it going so I rehire them.”

The fall tour begins on October 15 in Snoqualmie, Washington and runs through October 20 in Costa Mesa, California. Then Ringo will play shows in Japan and South Korea before returning to North America on November 8 in Honolulu, Hawaii. Dates are scheduled through November 19 in San Rafael, California.